Folding pin ticket



June 24,1924. 1,499,035

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Patented June 24, 192

ROBERT HUGH SKEGGS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO A. KIMBALL COMPANY,

CORPORATION OF MAINE.

FOLDING PIN TICKET.

Application filed July 2,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT HUGH Snneos, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Folding Pin Tickets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts. v

This invention relates to marking tickets of the folding type provided with pin fasteners by which they are attached to the goods to be marked. The invention more particularly relates to and has for its object to provide such a construction of this type of ticket as to enable it to be printed in an ordinary printing press. 7

While marking tickets may be partially printed by the manufacturer it is universally necessary for the user to add to the ticket indicia such as of style. price and similar matters. But as a great many tickets are marked by the user with similar matter it is desirable that this additional matter should be printed upon the ticket by the user in order to secure speedy and economi- 0211' marking. But the pin fasteners proj ecting from the marking tickets prevent the use of ordinary printing machines or require special construction in such machines. Such pin fasteners projecting from the rear face of the marking ticket or the face opposite that upon which the printing is done requires that the bed or platen of the press should be grooved or cut away to allow for the passage of the projecting pins. I

In the present invention a marking ticket is embodied of the folding type or one in which the card portion of the ticket is made up of a plurality of sections foldable along lines extending transversely of the ticket. To this type of ticket the invention adds an additional pin bearing section with the pin member or members projecting from the front face thereof. This pin bearing section which is of a comparatively short length, when the ticket is applied to the goods, is folded back against the rear face of the main section of the ticket so that its 1923. Serial No. 648,912.

pins then project, as required in the application of the ticket, from the rear face of the main section. This construction enables the ticket to be printed with the pin members projecting from the front face of the card. Thus no special construction of the bed or platen of the'press is required. The printing head of the press will press down onto the bed at one side of the pin members and without interference therewith, or if required an opening may be leftin the chase to receive the pin members. Thus the marking tickets may readily be printed upon any ordinary type of press without any special alteration thereof. These and other objects and features of the invention will appear more fully from the accompanying description and drawings and V will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a portion of a folding pin ticket strip comprising a plural ity of similar marking tickets and embodying a preferred form of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the front face of a single ticket such as shown in Fig. 1 when in folded position.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the opposite side of the folded ticket illustrated in-Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a view in perspective showing the ticket illustrated in the remaining figures in partially folded position or in the position it assumes just as it is to be applied to the goods.

The individual marking tickets herein illustrated as embodying a preferred form of the invention are preferably supplied by the manufacturer to the user in strip form, each strip containing any desired number of tickets. The tickets are partially separated from each other in the stripso that each ticket may readily be separated" from the strip. Fig. 1 illustrates the end portion of such a strip of tickets.

The ticket, as illustrated comprises a'card of any suitable marking ticket material such as heavy paper or light cardboard; This card is divided by transverse weakened lines of fold 1 2 and 3, such as formed by scoring, into longitudinally consecutive sections. In the construction illustrated these sections are shown as a short pin bearing section l. a long. main section 5, a cover section 6 equal in size to the main section 5 and a tapering flap section 7.

The main section 5 carries upon its front face as shown in Fig. l the main printed matter. This printed matter may be applied by the user or a portion of it may be applied by the manufacturer and the remainder applied by the user. The cover section 6 may also carry upon a portion of its front face additional printed matter if desired.

The pin bearing section 4 has secured thereto the pin fastener which may be of any suitable form. It is illustrated as the usual form of wire staple. The prongs 8 of the pin fastener project through the section 4 upwardly from the front face and the central section 9 of which is bent around the edge of the section 4; and back onto the front face.

The pin bearing section 4; is foldable on the score 1 against the rear face of the main section and the cover section 6 is foldable on the score 2 against the rear face of the main section and over the pin bearing section. An opening 10 is provided at the end of the cover section 6 to receive the prongs of the pinfastener. hen the ticket is applied to the goods the goods are inserted between the sections and the prongs of the'pin fastener passed through the goods and through the opening 10 and then bent down against the front face of the section 6 in the usual manner.

In the preferred form of ticket illustrated a flap section 7 is employed which is bent on the score 3 against the front face of the cover section 6 so as to cover and conceal the prongs of the pin fastener and the opening 10 and this flap section is then tucked through an aperture 11 in the cover section 6 in between sect-ions 5 and 6 of the ticket as illustrated in Fig. 3. In F ig. 1 the ticket is shown partially folded. The pin bearing section 4 is shown folded partially back against the rear face of the main section 5 and the prongs '8 of the pin fastener are shown ust about to enter the opening 10. The goods are not illustrated but they will extend between sections'5 and 6 of the ticket and the prongs S will pass through the goods before passing through the opening 10.

The tickets which are of similar form are laterally connected to form a strip as shown in Fig. 1 and the adjacent tickets are united along'their lateral edges at intervals by unsevered portions of the card material. In the construction illustrated the card 'material is completely severed along the lines 12 which it will be noted do not cross the scored portions 1, 2, and 3. Hence the tickets are held together by unsevered portions at the scored zones. Thus each ticket may readily be separated from the strip by tearing or breaking it away at the scored portions which is readily done and which leaves the side edges of the main and cover sections exposed to view in clean out form.

It will be seen that a single ticket or a strip of tickets embodying this invention may readily be printed because the prongs 8 of the pin fastener will project from the front face of the card or from the face upon which the printing takes place. The ticket or the strip of tickets may be placed. in an ordinary printing press so that the printing head will operate without interfering with the prongs of thepin membersv If desired an opening may readily be left in the set up of the chase to receive the pin members. In any event it is unnecessary to cut away or rebuild the platen of the press as is the case when the prongs of the pin fasteners project from the rear face of the ticket.

[he pin bearing section of the ticket provided by this invention when bent back against the rear face of the main section of the ticket brings the prongs of the pin fasteners into the required position for attachment of the ticket to the goods.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

l. Afolding pin ticket comprising a single card divided by transverse weakened lines of fold into the following longitudinally consecutive sections, viz a short pin bearing section, a main section, a cover section equal in'size to the main section, and a flap section, together with a pin fastener secured to and projecting from the front face of the pin bearing section, the pin bearing sectionbeing foldable against the rear face of the main section, the cover section beingfoldable against the rear face of the main section over the pin bearing section and having an aperture to receive the free end of the flap section when folded forward onto the front face of the cover section and an opening between the aperture and the juncture of the cover section and flap sectionto receive the pin fastener whereby the pin fz'rs tencrprojects from the front face of the card when in flat unfolded condition and from the rear face of the main section when the card is folded and applied to the goods to be marked.

2. A folding pin ticket comprising a single card divided by transverse weakened lines of fold into the following longitudinally consecutive sections, viza'short pin bearing section, a main section and a cover section, together with a pin fastener secured to andprojecting from the front face of the being foldable against the rear face of the main section, the cover section being foldable against the rear face of the main section over the pin bearing section and having 5 an opening to receive the pin fastener WhGI'Gr by the pin fastener projects from the front face of the card when in fiat unfolded con- ROBERT HUGH SKEGGS. 

